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...effects are not limited to our careers. It touches almost everything we do. Imagine that you go into the dining hall for dinner and find that nothing served that evening suits your tastes. You could make yourself some sort of extensive salad-bar concoction, or bake yourself a tuna melt in the microwave or go out for dinner instead. But those options require more time, more money, more ingenuity--and the dining hall's shake'n'bake chicken is sitting right there waiting for you. It's as initially inefficient to make your own food as it is to learn...
Figure skater KATARINA WITT, 32, is not known for being demure. Her interpretation of Carmen at the 1988 Winter Olympics turned the term ice queen upside down. But for years the East German skater has resisted Playboy's attempts to melt her remaining inhibitions. Until now. In its December issue, the magazine will feature a 10-page pictorial on Witt, stripped of skates, sequins and, yes, even her gold medals...
...decidely chilly 483 million miles from the Sun, nobody expected these rocks to be anywhere near tropical enough for the liquid stuff. "If we find out four and a half billion years after the formation of the solar system that there's still enough heat that ice will melt on the interior of these bodies," said Margaret Kivelson, one of the researchers behind the study, "we have to do a little bit of rethinking...
...know that global temperatures are up, and one of the things people worry about with global warming is that the icecaps could melt enough to put New York, for example, under water," says Elmer-Dewitt. Instead of being a patch of warm weather, it's a matter of a change in climate, and as Elmer-Dewitt says, "In the dispute over the effects of burning hydrocarbons, there's nothing like an iceberg the size of Delaware to get the world's attention...
...wants to start a new life with Sethe and her quiet daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise), who is bright and beautiful but is also being suffocated by her mother's overprotective rein. All goes well at first as Paul D begins to unlock Sethe's heart and melt Denver's cold demeanor through his natural charm and exuberance. But their fragile existence becomes threatened by the emergence of a strange girl known simply as Beloved (Thandie Newton), who may or may not be the incarnation of the daughter Sethe was forced to murder in her sordid past. As Beloved's presence...